GABRIEL COLE
NAARm (MELBOURNE), Australia
Cole’s practise explores two dimensional forms with pertinence to semiotics and motifs. The inclusion of signage as a visual form is a unique expression of visual, physical, and emotional graphic entity. As Cole conjures three dimensional forms, the technique of layering is introduced. Materials in the background have been folded, scrunched, and torn to allow for a natural abstraction to occur. However, the foreground portrays a highly considered and delicate painterly hand. It is the intersection of refined skill through practice with a desire for embracing imperfections which imbue Cole’s work with an alluring sense of natural abstraction and unknowing. As to play an ode to the identity of graphic work but with the intention to dissolute, in which now the subject has lost its original intention. Coles practise now focuses on paintings, sculpture and sound in a way of communicating his unique take on graphic form.
